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Eastward ost6/7/2023 ![]() Like, Isabel is the Rocket Knight who seeks to save the Princess, and that clearly on some level influenced Earth Born, but obviously those events didn't happen until much later - it's very likely that there's a level of time-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that just isn't amenable to conventional logic on some level. It's even harder to pin down when you consider how events in the future seem to influence events in the past. Same with the Sandrupe - it was unveiled that "day", shipped out, became a staple crop, and centuries passed while in Ester City the day just kept on repeating. The various human growth labs were also created, and Mother left a piece of herself in each of them - I believe one of these pieces got derailed and wound up in the underworld.Īt some point, likely early on, all of Ester City was enveloped into a time loop - I cannot be sure, but it's likely Isabel was a robot or cyborg created during this period who left, but again it's really ambiguous. This released Charon onto the world, which was *I believe* normally just the train that you take eastward before you get the Iron Chariot, but it kept looping along with the Tower and was repurposed into some sort of super-tech machine that pumped out the Miasma and held Mother's main core. This created Mother, an advanced AI with psychic powers (look, there's a ghost in the game, psychic stuff is clearly real on some level) which embarked on the project of human improvement. The Eternal Tower created a localized time-loop involving vat-grown brains that eventually vastly outstripped the rest of the world technologically. Solomon and very likely Alva's father were among them. Okay, so here is the story as best I was able to piece it together:Īt some point, scientists in Ester City created/discovered the Eternal Tower. So the humanity wasn't wiped out, after all? Where's everyone then? I feel like in the end the story was wrapped in kind of rush. Almost forgot, we see William with both of his Daniels, and they are going somewhere and quite happy. The Mother says that she still destroys the humanity, so John is the only human alive (and that's why we don't see literally anyone of the numerous cast in the ending sequence)? And so he's seeing things in the "happy" epilogue? Sad again and the whole quest was kinda pointless. It was implied that Alva died, but what happens with Isabel? Is she just stands there for all eternity on the underground railway like the soul-crushed humanoid robot she is? That's just plain sad (and somewhat lazy on the part of the writing). I can't say that i was satisfied with the story and the ending myself. The pirates squad told us they waited for Mother/Sam's coming a long, long time. Little one in the Alva's city, the cranky teenager on the train and then our paths got separated in the mist (again) and Solomon arrived in the Easter City something like 50 years ahead of us and built everything there (time loop itself including). We do know that time jumps somewhat erratically in the city, so it may be very well possible that the three Solomons are the same person all along. Why though? We don't know when Easter City time loop was activated. The young solomon could be on the monkollywood train and have got older, that does work.īut old solomon has been dead for a very, very, very long time since the last day of Esther City is being repeated over and over and has been (presumably) for at least 100 years, maybe longer. Originally posted by Taear:I don't think it's possible. While I do like games with open-ended conclusions, this one really has too many of them sadly. Apparently she can cycle herself, which might be why she appeared as a teenager at the end of the game, meaning she broke her own time loop cycle.Ī ton of that has speculation with how much missing stuff there is. How Sam worked as a mother and saving humanity is poorly explained, and we only know she had some internal conflict with a part of herself that believed destroying and recycling humans over and over was the only way to exist. It seems Sam got sent back to Potrock somehow after creating the humans of Easter city, meaning there may have been literal westward and backwards time travel. Disabling the tower ended the loop, but it's time for eons was still spent in the time fog and it instantly turned into its decrepit destoryed state. Easter city is stuck in a timeloop with very few people who are even aware that they are in a time loop anymore. ![]() The monkey train was years into the future. we never see a train go directly west, if anything the game's point to the east was a huge metaphore for time, but it seems people do get back westward.Įaster city got timecycled to death just like the monkey train. I don't get the miasma and why it isn't just gone now I'm just as confused as you are concerning a few different things. A ton of what happened in the last half of the game involved time travel/time anomolies.
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